The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by mark_l_watson on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:58AM (#12453602)

While future IoT devices are a privacy (and security) nightmare, we can take simple steps to leave a smaller digital footprint when using the web: use private browser windows more often, use a separate web browser for Google and Facebook services, use a separate browser with privacy tools for the rest of your web browsing.

This helps somewhat and is no real effort.

I find Google to useful when travelling so I use gmail for making travel reservations so Google Now knows what I am doing. So, a few times a year I let myself be tracked for convenience. Otherwise I like private email, Private calendar, etc.

I don't think privacy has to all or nothing deal. Just make choices you are comfortable with.

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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by rsync on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:28AM (#12453914)

"While future IoT devices are a privacy (and security) nightmare, we can take simple steps to leave a smaller digital footprint when using the web: use private browser windows more often, use a separate web browser for Google and Facebook services, use a separate browser with privacy tools for the rest of your web browsing."

What I really want is a chroot jail for a browser. This shouldn't be that hard, but the GUI adds some complexity ... and I am not sure how to implement it in OSX.

I can do this immediately with vmware fusion, but that's a lot of overhead - quite expensive - for just a second browser instance. It gets even more expensive if I want a third or a fourth.

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